Concepts of mental life across cultures: Supplemental analysis

In this notebook we conduct exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) on the datasets for our studies of concepts of mental life, in which each participants judged the various mental capacities of a particular target entity. We analyze datasets for adults and children from each of our five field sites: the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu.

This notebook contains the results presented in the supplement, in which we recode our three-point response scale to have two points (no = 0, kind of or yes = 1) and use tetrachoric correlations.

Adults

Samples

  country   n
       US 127
    Ghana 150
 Thailand 150
    China 136
  Vanuatu 148
    Total 711

Scale use (before recoding kinda = yes)

Factor retention: parallel analysis

Exploratory factor analysis

Factor loadings

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Congruence

Bootstrapped congruence

Children

Samples

  country   n
       US 117
    Ghana 150
 Thailand 152
    China 131
  Vanuatu 143
    Total 693

Scale use (before recoding kinda = yes)

Factor retention: parallel analysis

Exploratory factor analysis

Factor loadings

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Congruence

See All samples, below.

Bootstrapped congruence

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All samples

Congruence

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Developmental comparisons

Joining, by = c("factor", "age_group", "country", "factor_name", "factor_descript", "factor_labdescript")
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Joining, by = c("factor", "age_group", "country", "factor_name", "factor_descript", "factor_labdescript")
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Joining, by = c("factor", "age_group", "country", "factor_name", "factor_descript", "factor_labdescript")
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Joining, by = c("factor", "age_group", "country", "factor_name", "factor_descript", "factor_labdescript")
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Joining, by = c("factor", "age_group", "country", "factor_name", "factor_descript", "factor_labdescript")
Joining, by = c("factor", "country", "age_group")
Column `country` joining character vector and factor, coercing into character vector

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